Unilever Stock News

Analysts say a successful bid would represent one of the biggest ever deals involving firms trading in London.

GlaxoSmithKline rejects three purchase offers from Unilever for its Consumer Healthcare business. The U.K. pharma giant says the business is well-positioned to sustainably grow ahead of its categori

Glaxo says Unilever has made three proposals to buy the GSK Consumer Healthcare business. Its most recent approach in December was for 50 billion pounds ($68.4 billion).

Unilever confirms interest in GSK assets, says GSK consumer business would be ''strong strategic fit''; UK''s Sunday Times says 50 billion-pound bid rejected in late 2021

Consumer goods giant Unilever has made a bid for pharmaceutical group Glaxosmithkline's consumer goods business worth roughly 50 billion pounds ($68.4 billion), Britain's Sunday Times reported.

Unilever is the company behind well-known consumer good brands such as Cif, Knorr, Hellmann's, and Lifebuoy.

Unilever has been blamed for 'losing the plot' and its management publicly displaying its sustainability credentials at the expense of running the business. Performance during the last couple of years

Share price of Marmite and Magnum owner is underperforming badly in marked contrast with its peers

Star fund manager Terry Smith has explained his recent purchase of shares in Amazon.com, while blaming Unilever PLC for having "lost the plot" and said PayPal might want to "stick to its knittin

Unilever faces headwinds in 2022 as input costs are rising.

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British consumer giant Reckitt Benckiser sought to allay concerns from its army of sales agents in India about unfair pricing, saying it had taken steps to ensure a level playing field for distributors, a letter seen by Reuters showed. The assurance followed a Reuters story in November that revealed sales agents of companies including Reckitt, Unilever and Colgate were angry that mom-and-pop stores - known as kiranas in India - increasingly ordered from Indian retailer Reliance''s mobile app because they could get lower prices. In a letter dated Dec. 20 to a key trade group of 400,000 consumer goods sales agents, Reckitt said it had taken steps to ensure "equitable play" for all its business partners as it seeks to resolve their concerns. There are hundreds of thousands of consumer goods distributors who go store-to-store in India to take orders from kirana outlets and they are key to the success of companies like Reckitt in trying to reach the population of 1.3 billion. The agents said the companies risked supply disruptions if they did not ensure pricing parity for all distributors. "We have been extremely careful and discourage any unsustainable businesses with alternate distribution channel partners," Reckitt said in the letter to the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF). "Any violation is immediately flagged off and stopped," it added, without naming Reliance or any other big distributor.

Last year was a very challenging one for Unilever and the company significantly underperformed other consumer staples. Exogenous factors, such as rising commodity inflation, are largely to blame for t

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Unilever stock (NYSE: UL) is up more than 5% in just one month (21 trading days), outperforming the S&P 500 which was up just a little over 4%. If you look at the change over the last five days, too,